>> AS A NATION AND PEOPLE OF
FAITH GATHER IN THIS THIS
HISTORICAL MOMENT, LET US UNITE
IN PRAYER.
GOD, WE GATHER UNDER THE DUTY OF
YOUR HOLINESS AND THE HOLINESS
OF YOUR BEAUTY.
WE SEEK YOUR FAITH, YOUR SMILE,
YOUR WARM EMBRACE.
WE PETITION YOU ONCE MORE IN
THIS CELEBRATION.
WE PRAY FOR DIVINE FAVOR UPON
OUR PRESIDENT, JOSEPH R. BIDEN,
AND OUR FIRST LADY, DR. JILL
BIDEN AND THEIR FAMILY.
WE FURTHER ASK THAT YOU WOULD
EXTEND THE SAME FAVOR UPON OUR
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA D. HARRIS
AND OUR SECOND GENTLEMAN, DOUG
EMHOFF, AND THEIR FAMILY.
MORE THAN EVER, MORE THAN EVER,
THEY AND OUR NATION NEED YOU.
WE NEED YOU, FOR IN YOU WE
DISCOVER OUR COMMON HUMANITY.
IN OUR COMMON HUMANITY, WE WILL
SEEK OUT THE WOUNDED AND BIND
THEIR WOUNDS.
WE WILL SEEK HEALING FOR THOSE
WHO ARE SICK AND DISEASED.
WE WILL MOURN OUR DEAD.
WE BEFRIEND THE LONELY, THE
LEAST, AND THE LEFT OUT.
WE WILL SHARE OUR ABUNDANCE WITH
THOSE WHO ARE HUNGRY.
WE WILL DO JUSTLY TO THE
OPPRESSED, ACKNOWLEDGE SIN, AND
SEEK FORGIVENESS, THUS GRASPING
RECONCILIATION.
IN DISCOVERING OUR HUMANITY, WE
WILL SEEK THE GOOD IN AND FOR
ALL OUR NEIGHBORS.
WE WILL LOVE THE UNLOVABLE,
REMOVER THE STIGMA OF THE
SO-CALLED UNTOUCHABLES.
WE WILL CARE FOR OUR MOST
VULNERABLE, OUR CHILDREN, THE
ELDERLY, EMOTIONALLY CHALLENGED,
AND THE POOR.
WE WILL SEEK REHABILITATION
BEYOND CORRECTION.
WE WILL EXTEND OPPORTUNITY TO
THOSE LOCKED OUT OF OPPORTUNITY.
WE WILL MAKE FRIENDS OF OUR
ENEMIES.
WE WILL MAKE FRIENDS OF OUR
ENEMIES.
PEOPLE, YOUR PEOPLE, SHALL NO
LONGER RAISE UP WEAPONS AGAINST
ONE ANOTHER, WE WILL RATHER USE
OUR RESOURCES FOR THE NATIONAL
GOOD AND BECOME A BEACON OF LIFE
AND GOOD WILL TO THE WORLD.
AND NEITHER SHALL WE LEARN
HATRED ANYMORE.
WE WILL LIE DOWN IN PEACE AND
NOT MAKE OUR NEIGHBORS AFRAID. IN YOU, O GOD, WE DISCOVER OUR
IN YOU, O GOD, WE DISCOVER OUR
HUMANITY, AND OURIN OUR HUMANITY
WE DISCOVER OUR XHOMCOMMONENS,
REGARDLESS.
WE WILL BECOME GREATER STEWARDS
OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT, PRESERVING
THE LAND, REAPING FROM IT A
SUSTAINABLE HARVEST, AND
SECURING ITS WONDER AND
MIRACLE-GIVING POWER FOR
GENERATIONS TO COME.
THIS IS OUR BENEDICTION, THAT
FROM THESE HALLOWED GROUNDS
WHERE SLAVES LABORED TO BUILD
THIS SHRINE AND CITADEL TO
LIBERTY AND DEMOCRACY, LET US
ALL ACKNOWLEDGE FROM THE
INDIGENOUS NATIVE AMERICAN THAT
THOSE WHO RECENTLY RECEIVED
THEIR CITIZENSHIP, FROM THE
AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO THOSE WHOSE
FOREPARENTS CAME FROM EUROPE AND
EVERY CORNER OF THE GLOBE, FROM
THE WEALTHY TO THOSE STRUGGLING
TO MAKE IT, FOR EVERY HUMAN
BEING REGARDLESS OF THEIR
CHOICES, THAT THIS IS OUR
COUNTRY.
AS SUCH, TEACH US, O GOD.
AS SUCH, TEACH US, O GOD, TO
LIVE IN IT, LOVE IN IT, BE
HEALED IN IT, AND RECONCILE TO
ONE ANOTHER IN IT LEST WE MISS
KINGDOM’S GOAL.
TO YOUR GLORY, MAJESTY, DOMINION
AND POWER, FOREVER.
HALLELUJAH, GLORY, HALLELUJAH.